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ThirdWorlds eBook Series

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  • The Politics of Rights

    Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis

    Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Maxine Molyneux ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights in their policy and practice. This special issue on feminist perspectives on politics of rights explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with ‘rights work’ in a variety of settings.Articles on the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East and South Asia explore the dilemmas that arise for ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    One of the most widely read and influential works in African American literature, "The Souls of Black Folk" is W.E.B. Du Bois's classic collection of essays in which he details the state of racism and black culture at the beginning of the 20th century. Often autobiographical, "The Souls of Black Folk" takes the reader on a history lesson of race relations and the state of the African American from ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Outskirts of Hope

    A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South

    by Jo Ivester ...
    In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Covering

    The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

    by Kenji Yoshino ...
    A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have covered our true selves. . . . We really do feel ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Why I March

    Images from The Women's March Around the World

    by Abrams Books ...
    An inspiring photographic account of the worldwide Women's March of 2017—one of the biggest peaceful protests in history.On January 21, 2017, five million people in eighty-two countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Thou, Dear God"

    Prayers That Open Hearts and Spirits

    by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...
    Series Book 6 - King Legacy
    "Thou, Dear God" is the first and only collection of sixty-eight prayers by Martin Luther King, Jr. Arranged thematically in six parts--with prayers for spiritual guidance, special occasions, times of adversity, times of trial, uncertain times, and social justice--Baptist minister and King scholar Lewis Baldwin introduces the book and each section with short essays. Included are both personal and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cheating Justice

    How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecution- and What We Can Do about It

    by Cynthia Cooper, Elizabeth Holtzman ...
    President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney deceived Congress and the people to drive us into a war in Iraq; they claimed the right to wiretap illegally and to eavesdrop on citizens; and they authorized torture, unilaterally upending laws and violating international treaty obligations. Yet, both Bush and Cheney are audaciously unapologetic about their crimes. In his recent memoir, President ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Burton J. Hendrick’s Collected Works: The Victory At Sea, The Story of Life Insurance, and More! (5 Works)

    (Pulitzer Prize work)

    by Burton J. Hendrick ...
    Series series Jame-Books Library
    Burton Jesse Hendrick was an American author. He won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for The Victory at Sea which he co-authored with William Sowden Sims, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page and again in 1929 for The Training of An American. Hendrick wrote the Age of Big Business in 1919, using a series of individual biographies, as an enthusiastic look at the foundation of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Captive Genders

    Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

    Edited by Nat Smith, Eric A. Stanley ...
    While other titles have explored gender in the context of the American prison population, Captive Genders is the first book to explicitly examine self-identified trans-folk and gender-queer individuals inside US prisons.Composed largely of first-hand accounts of the policing of trans and gender-queer folks, this book is suitable for readers in the GLBTQ community, as well as for readers who are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

    by T.V. Reed ...
    Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The Art of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Biometrics

    Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics

    by Joseph Pugliese ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. In the post-9/11 world, biometric technologies have experienced an extraordinary period of growth as concerns about security and screening have increased. This book analyses biometric systems in terms of the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Exporting American Dreams

    Thurgood Marshall's African Journey

    by Mary L. Dudziak ...
    Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional negotiations, as adversaries battled over rights and land--not with weapons, but with legal arguments. Set ... Read more

    $22.39 USD